Jeffrey Tambor

Often seen onscreen playing officious and obsequious types in a variety of film and television roles, actor Jeffrey Tambor first made himself known as the narcissistic sidekick Hank Kingsley on the ac...
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Acclaimed transgender-centred series Transparent has landed five top prizes at the 2015 Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association's (GALECA) Dorian Awards. The freshman series has dominated in all but one of its six nominated categories, picking up TV Comedy of the Year, LGBTQ TV Show of the Year, and TV Performance of the Year - Actor for Jeffrey Tambor.
The show's director Jill Soloway earns two prizes for TV Director of the Year and Wilde Artist of the Year, a prize which honours a groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theatre and/or television.
Transparent's multiple wins come a week after the series picked up two trophies at the Golden Globes.
Also continuing her winning streak from the Hollywood Foreign Press' prizegiving is Jane the Virgin actress Gina Rodriguez, who has been named the GALECA's Rising Star, while the programme lands the Campy TV Show of the Year honour.
Other TV winners include The Comeback's Lisa Kudrow (TV Performance of the Year - Actress) and AIDS film The Normal Heart (TV Drama of the Year).
Meanwhile, a number of Oscar frontrunners picked up a few more awards, including coming-of-age drama Boyhood, which has been named Film of the Year, and Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne, who nab the Film Performance of the Year - Actress and Actor, respectively, for their roles in Still Alice and The Theory of Everything.
British gay rights film Pride also snags two prizes, for LGBTQ Film of the Year and Unsung Film of the Year.
The Dorian Awards will be handed out during a formal ceremony in Hollywood on 1 March (15).

Oscar frontrunner Birdman and TV drama Transparent lead the nominations for the 2015 Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association's Dorian Awards. Michael Keaton's acclaimed movie is up for four of the top awards, including Film Performance of the Year - Actor, Film Director of the Year (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu), Visually Striking Film of the Year, and Film of the Year, where it will be up against Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, and Pride.
Fresh off its two wins at the Golden Globes on Sunday (11Jan15), acclaimed transgender-centred series Transparent snagged six nods, including TV Performance of the Year - Actor (Jeffrey Tambor), LGBTQ TV Show of the Year, Unsung TV Show of the Year, and TV Comedy of the Year, where it will compete with The Comeback, Modern Family, Orange Is The New Black, and Veep.
Meanwhile, the freshman series' creator Jill Soloway is also up for TV Director of the Year and Wilde Artist of the Year, a prize which honours a groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theatre and/or television.
Other nominees include Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Steve Carell, who will all go up against Keaton in the lead actor category, while Julianne Moore, Rosamund Pike and Reese Witherspoon are among the women up for Film Performance of the Year - Actress nominees.
In addition, Fargo, The Good Wife, How To Get Away With Murder, Mad Men, and The Normal Heart will vie for TV Drama of the Year, while stars including Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Mark Ruffalo and Kevin Spacey will compete against Tambor for TV Performance of the Year - Actor, and Viola Davis, Lisa Kudrow, Julianna Margulies, Tatiana Maslany, and Frances McDormand will vie for the respective actress category.
Star Trek alum and gay rights advocate George Takei will be honoured with the Timeless Star accolade, which is given to "an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit."
The Dorian Awards will be announced on 20 January (15), with a formal ceremony to be held in Hollywood on 1 March (15).

Director Richard Linklater's Boyhood was the toast of Hollywood at the Golden Globes on Sunday (11Jan15) after picking up three of the night's biggest honors.
Linklater claimed the Best Director prize, while the film was named Best Motion Picture, Drama and Patricia Arquette landed the Best Supporting Actress award for her portrayal of a single mother looking for love.
Boyhood has now become a clear favorite to pick up the Best Picture Oscar after taking home a string of top gongs this awards season.
The Theory of Everything and Birdman were double winners at the Globes, while The Affair, Transparent and Fargo led the TV categories with two awards apiece.
It was also a very good night for newlyweds Eddie Redmayne, George Clooney and John Legend - Brit Redmayne picked up a Best Actor honour for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, John Legend was a winner for his song Glory from the movie Selma, and George Clooney took home the 2015 Cecil B. DeMille Award. Both Clooney and Redmayne paid tribute to their new brides in their acceptance speeches, with Redmayne revealing he and his wife "of about a couple of weeks" had to cut their honeymoon short to attend the prizegiving. He added, "I thank the HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association) for giving us a night at the end of our honeymoon we will remember."
The full list of winners is:
Best Motion Picture, Drama - Boyhood
Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama - Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama - Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical - Amy Adams (Big Eyes)
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical - Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture - J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture - Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
Best Director - Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Best Original Score - Johann Johannsson (The Theory of Everything)
Best Original Song - Glory by John Legend &amp; Common (Selma)
Best Animated Feature Film - How to Train Your Dragon 2
Best Screenplay - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris &amp; Armando Bo (Birdman)
Best Foreign Language Film - Leviathan (Russia)
Cecil B. DeMille Award - George Clooney
Best TV Series, Drama - The Affair
Best Mini-Series or TV Movie - Fargo
Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical - Transparent
Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie - Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Honorable Woman)
Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy or Musical - Gina Rodriguez (Jane The Virgin)
Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama - Ruth Wilson (The Affair)
Best Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie - Billy Bob Thornton (Fargo)
Best Actor in a TV Series, Comedy or Musical - Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent)
Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama - Kevin Spacey (House of Cards)
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie - Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey)
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie - Matt Bomer (The Normal Heart)

Crime drama True Detective and new online series Transparent have emerged as the top nominees for the 2015 Writers Guild Awards. Transparent, starring Jeffrey Tambor as a transgender man, landed a trio of nods and will compete for the Comedy Series title with Orange Is the New Black, Silicon Valley, Louie and Veep, and the New Series category opposite Silicon Valley, The Affair, Clive Owen's The Knick and True Detective.
Transparent writer Ethan Kuperberg is also up for Episodic Comedy for The Wilderness.
The coveted Drama Series shortlist features House of Cards facing off with double nominees Game of Thrones, True Detective, Mad Men and The Good Wife.
Martin Scorsese and Mark Wahlberg's Boardwalk Empire was noticeably absent from the Drama Series nominations, as were Homeland and Fargo, but the period crime drama did land two mentions for Episodic Drama for the Devil You Know and Friendless Child instalments of the fifth and final season, which wrapped in the U.S. in October (14).
Likewise, Modern Family surprisingly missed out on the Comedy Series category, but did grab nods for The Cold and Three Dinners segments in the Episodic Comedy rundown.
Meanwhile, other nomination highlights include Saturday Night Live in the Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - Series, The 68th Annual Tony Awards in Comedy/Variety - Music, Awards, Tributes - Specials, and the star-studded TV movie adaptation of Larry Kramer's AIDS-crisis play The Normal Heart, which is up for the Long Form Adapted award, alongside Olive Kitteridge, Houdini and The Leftovers pilot.
The winners of the Writers Guild Awards, which honour the screenwriters behind the TV hits, will be announced on 14 February (15).

Amazon
Amazon recently premiered a batch of new pilot episodes and Transparent was one of their most talked-about shows — with good reason. Creator Jill Soloway (Afternoon Delight, Six Feet Under, and United States of Tara) very possibly has another hit on her hands, and we can't wait to see more. The first episode was excellent, as we got to meet a very unique family with a very unique set of issues... that were also, simultaneously, oddly familiar. And now, we get a little spoilery here.
First of all, the cast is perfect. A hilariously dysfunctional trio of siblings is played by Gaby Hoffmann, Jay Duplass, and Amy Landecker. Jeffrey Tambor plays Mort, the well-to-do father of the three adult children. He has yet to tell them that (spoiler alert) he is transitioning into a transgender lifestyle. So the show is full of good stuff, and there were very interesting sexual and sensual moments involving each of the children who have their own issues.
However, what stood out like a sore thumb was the fact there seemed to be a heightened focus on the female form over the male. That is to say, we saw every woman on the show nude or partially nude at some point, while the men's bodies were presented with this odd sense of modesty. Now, none of this female nudity was gratuitous — it was all very well done and very natural (i.e., one character bends over the sink while brushing her teeth, and when her shirt lifts up, we see that she is sans panties and, thus, get a little booty shot, which seems appropriate). But it was interesting that the men were not shown in the same light, despite plenty of opportunities. For example, the husband in that same scene was also in the bathroom alongside his wife — no booty shot ensued.
Duplass' character (Josh) shows a little backside at some point, but this moment was insanely tame compared to what we saw of the women (Ali went full-frontal nude, for example). In fact, Duplass' character really help to highlight this issue since he has sex scenes with multiple women and we saw so much skin from all of them, and so little from him!
It's difficult to say what all this means exactly. But in a show clearly attempting to take an atypical approach to sexuality and the discourse surrounding it, we expect more! Transparent does a great job of deconstructing the notion of female nudity as automatically sexy or as an implication of arousal. That is to say, many of the times when the women on the pilot episode were naked, it wasn't especially sexy. Some might call it the Lena Dunham/Girls approach, where the purpose of a nude scene or shot is not to arouse the male viewer. This in and of itself is still an exciting concept (at least, for us Americans it is). But when it only plays out with the female characters on a show, it still continues to emphasize female nudity over everything else. In this way it feels like it's defeating its own purpose, if the idea is to take a unique approach to typical narratives of sexuality for men and women. As of right now, Transparent — which, again, has the potential for greatness — is still feeding into the mass appeal of a naked woman, even if the presentation of that naked woman is different. The only way to balance this out would be to try to show more non-gratuitous, natural scenes or shots featuring the naked man. Director Steve McQueen did a great job of this in Shame with Michael Fassbender — the public backlash was actually more gratuitous than the scenes in the movie, which points to the fact that we as a cultural need male nudity to become more normalized so we don't lose our minds every time an actor drops trou on screen.
It must be said that even this critique is really a form of praise for the must-watch pilot. Here's hoping the series does get picked up for a full season, so we can learn more about these truly fascinating characters. And, yes, so we can also see some of the guys nude.
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The cast of hit comedy Arrested Development is to reunite for a TV special. Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter and creator Mitch Hurwitz will appear on U.S. show Inside the Actors Studio on 7 November (13).

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Move on over, Netflix — Amazon is playing to win. Hoping to compete with other streaming sites like Netflix and Hulu, Amazon Studios has announced that it has given the green light to three more original half-hour comedy pilots.
The new pilots include: Mozart in the Jungle, written by Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom and The Darjeeling Limited), Jason Schwartzman (Moonrise Kingdom and Rushmore), and Alex Timbers (Peter and the Starcatcher); The Outlaws, written by Jeremy Garelick (The Break-Up) and Jon Weinbach; and Transparent, written and directed by Jill Soloway (Six Feet Under). Here's a quick look at them:
Mozart in the JungleThe show is based on Blair Tindall's memoir of the same name and follows the behind-the-curtain action at the symphony, which, according to Amazon Studios, is sex, drugs, and of course some classical music.
The OutlawsThe comedy is about the ins and outs of a professional football team from the perspective of the players and the back office.
TransparentThe dark comedy is a story about an L.A. family with some serious boundary issues. Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker, and Jay Duplass star in the pilot.
Viewers will be able to watch the comedies online in early 2014 and provide feedback, which will help Amazon decide which pilots will be produced as series on Prime Instant Video and Amazon's LOVEFiLM in the U.K.
Amazon's first two comedies, Alpha House and Betas, which were chosen to be turned into series in April, are expected to air online this fall.
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The X-Files creator Chris Carter is working on his first new project in over a decade after striking a deal with online retail giant Amazon. Bosses at the firm, which launched a TV and film studio wing in 2010, have ordered a pilot of Carter's post-apocalyptic drama The After.
The project will mark the first time Carter has worked on a TV pilot since his X-Files spin-off The Lone Gunmen, which ran for one series in 2001.
The show will be streamed online. Amazon Studios is also working on projects with John Goodman and Jeffrey Tambor.
Carter penned The X-Files from 1993 until 2002, before writing the big screen spin-offs in 1998 and 2008.

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The Law &amp; order franchise is known for rooting through headlines to find fuel for its upcoming episodes. We've seen high profile cases from Mel Gibson's drunk driving incident/anti-Semitic rant to Gov. Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal take form in Dick Wolf's gritty little world. But the NBC mainstay seems to be getting a little ambitious in its old age. Maybe the recent years have provided too many public controversies for law &amp; Order to cover one by one, or maybe Det. John Munch has stepped behind the scenes as showrunner, instituting creative progress with some of his famed conspiracy theories inspiring the choices. But whatever the reason, SVU is doubling up on crimes for a forthcoming episode: EW reports that Season 15, which premieres in September, will feature a single episode that combines Paula Deen's highly publicized scandal with the events surrounding Trayvon Martin's killing. Something tells us this one was a late night in the writers room.
law &amp; order: sVU executive producer Warren Leight explains the conflation of the controversial topics: "[Jeffrey] Tambor is a defense attorney representing a very high-profile celebrity woman chef [played by Cybill Shepherd] who thought she was being pursued by a rapist and turned around it was a teenager. And she shot him ... There's a lot of stop and frisk elements to that as well." So, add that into the mix.
Perhaps it is by necessity that Law &amp; Order is weaving together the cases of Deen and Martin. Although Deen's story might have chucked in the celebrity chef's previous allegations of sexual harrasshment, SVU might have had to forgo inclusion of the Trayvon Martin for lack of any sexual component to the young man's story. Still, you have to wonder why, exactly, producers didn't opt to fictionalize elements about each case independently, rather than gluing them together via a fabricated plot device. And then you have to wonder if they'll continue on this path.
After all, we've got plenty of controversies to draw on from the past year. Could Anthony Wiener send a picture of his junk to Amanda Bynes, prompting her to throw a bong out of her high rise apartment window? Could we find Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning on trial for trading classified information with Edward Snowden, who leaves the Moscow Airport in protest of Russia's persecution of homosexuals and hides out in a rehab facility with Lindsay Lohan? What about Robin Thicke — that video must count as at least a misdemeanor, right? Where does he fit into all of this?!
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Happy May Day, TV lovers! My mother told me that on the first of May you’re supposed to send flowers to the ones you love. If I could I’d send each of you a thousand yellow daisies (name that TV show reference!), but instead I’ve created this finale-filled list of TV spoilers. Hopefully this will be a fun, less allergy-inducing alternative.
There are five brilliant shows featured in this week’s edition of Leanne’s Spoiler List and while some are coming to the end of their seasons, others are just beginning! The cast of Arrested Development shared as many Bluth family secrets as they could about their upcoming season on Netflix, and I chatted with the enchanted creators of Once Upon a Time to bring you spellbinding insights from the two-part finale.
Jim O’Heir teased if Jerry is really gone from the Parks and Rec office for good, and Happy Endings boss man David Caspe told me exclusive (and hilarious) information about Megan Mullally’s return. Finally, get ready to loose your appetite because the next new episode of Hannibal is going to be deliciously dangerous for the one and only My Girl star Anna Chlumsky. Enjoy your bouquet of TV scoop!
1. Once Upon a Time: The Magic Within
To put it lightly, this season has been a complete whirlwind of magical mayhem for Emma. It’s crazy to think that in the Season 2 premiere she was just coming to terms with the fact that her parents are the infamous Snow White and Prince Charming and now, 20 episodes later, she not only believes in magic, but she has the ability to do it!
Earlier this week I had breakfast with Once Upon a Time creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, and they told me that in these last two episode fans will get more of an insight into how Emma feels about all of these changes — especially the idea of moving back to The Enchanted Forest. Kistsis reveals, “I think we’re definitely going to explore he magic inside her, but I think there's a part of Emma that is still reeling from all this. I don't think she cares for it. ['The Evil Queen'] was the first time she starts to question it.”
He continues: “Last year was about believing. Now she believes, but it’s not what she really wanted. This year she's really embraced being a mother; she’s really put Henry first and she's really coming to grips with it. In the finale, it's going to set up for her next year to say, 'I have a new purpose, and maybe it's time I commit either one way or the other.'” Do you think Emma would be happy living in the Enchanted Forest or should she take Henry and Neal and move to NYC?
2. Arrested Development: So Many Secrets!
The Arrested Development gang has been sworn to secrecy over the Netflix-reincarnated fourth season of their bizarre, wonderful, and delightfully weird comedy. But lucky for all you Bluth family fans, Hollywood.com hit up the orange carpet premiere of the new season on Monday night, where we squeezed out a tiny bit of scoop from some cast members. Also worth noting: there was an Ostrich on the carpet. That’s right, an Ostrich! I don’t know what that means, but it was awkwardly amazing.
Stan Sitwell, who was interested in buying the Bluth family's shares in the Bluth Company during the show's series finale, will have some business dealings with the Bluth patriarch in the new season. Well, maybe. Says Ed Begley, who plays the follically challenged Stan, "I can’t give away any secrets but there is a scuffle between me and Jeffrey Tambor. That much I’ll tell you. There is a physical scuffle, and they decided to capture it on film. We were actually fighting, he and I, because there’s a lot of bitterness."
That can't possibly be true! Maybe we'll have better luck with new cast member Terry Crews, who's playing a weaselly politician. "He’s very despicable, but in this family, there’s levels of that. So I might even end up being a good guy," Crews says with a laugh. "You never know!"
Told you the Arrested Development gang were taking top secret to a whole ‘nother level! This is how hush-hush creator Mitch Hurwitz and co. were about the whole thing: Crews, who is actually in the show, didn't know anything about storylines other than his own until he sat down to watch the premiere. "I can’t wait to see it," he spilled before heading inside to catch the very first screening. "This is my first time even getting near what the story is, so I can’t wait to see this tonight." May 26 — so close, yet too far away to touch. (No touching!)
3. Happy Endings: A Baby Maybe?
In my opinion Megan Mullally is one of those actresses who can do no wrong. She captured my heart on Will and Grace and the day I found out she was going to play Penny’s mom on Happy Endings — one of my all-time favorite shows — well, let’s just say there was a lot of jumping up and down. So you can imagine my delight when Happy Endings creator David Caspe told me that she would be making her grand return this week.
During the first episode of this week's glorious TGIF hour, “Deuce Babylove 2: Electric Babydeuce” (Best episode title ever, bee tee dubs), Capse explains that both Dana Hartz and Big Dave are returning — and they have some life-changing news. “Michael McKeen and Megan Mullally come back as Dave’s dad and Penny’s mom and they’re still dating, which is great,” Caspe explains. “But they’re actually thinking of adopting a baby, which throws Penny and Dave into a crazy breakdown spiral.” Just imagining Penny and Dave’s shocked faces is making me all giddy.
Of course, since this is Happy Endings, ABC’s best comedy you need to be watching, everything is over the top and their solution to the problem is amahzing. Caspe reveals that Penny and Dave will go to drastic measures to change their parents’ minds. “That news results in them kidnapping a baby themselves in order to teach [their parents] a lesson,” he says. Classic Penny Blossom move!
But while Penny and Dave are committing crimes, where is the rest of the gang? Well dear reader, I will tell you the answer right now. Brad and Jane are desperate to have a little alone time together so they decide that an exclusive tennis club is the perfect way to get their cardio on — and by cardio I mean they’re probably going to do it in the tennis courts because Brad and Jane are awesome like that. Because Max and Alex hate to be excluded from things, hilarity ensues as they try to track the couple down. Don’t miss “Deuce Babylove 2: Electric Babydeuce” this Friday at 8 PM, followed by the Happy Endings season finale at 8:30 PM! Seriously, don’t miss it. I’ll be pretty peeved if you do.
4. Parks and Recreation: The End of Jerry?
I’ve already watched Thursday’s Season Finale of Parks and Rec and it’s definitely not an episode you wanna miss — mainly because I choked on one of my gummy bears from laughter at episode’s best line. Should I reveal it? Hmm… okay! “I’m bored. Let’s go have sex in a tree. He’ll be back in eight minutes.” Mona Lisa shines in this episode, and this is my official campaign to make her a regular next season! Fun fact: Jean-Ralphio is also in the finale and yes, he’s just as amazing as always.
It’s Founders Week in Pawnee and Leslie is celebrating her first year of being on the City Council. It’s been an amazing year for our waffle-loving Knope, but unfortunately not everyone in Pawnee agrees that things are better off with Leslie in office. While Leslie and Ben are dealing with the always-stubborn citizens, Andy’s crime-solving alter ego Bert Macklin is back in town to solve the mystery of the positive pregnancy test. The suspects are: Leslie, Donna, April, Mona Lisa, and Ann, but trust me when I say the answer is going to absolutely shock you.
We saw a few episodes ago that Jerry retired, but Jim O’Heir says that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve seen the last of the person everyone loves to hate. “It’s a bit of secret. I’m not supposed to reveal too much, what’s happening with Jerry, because as we saw, he retired and then he came back and he might be back for a couple of hours here and there,” he tells Hollywood.com.
O’Heir teases there will be clues dropped in the finale for Jerry’s future plans. “I think it’s kind of obvious what’s about to happen, just in the way they opened the door for me to come back but I can’t officially say either way. But to me, people should be able to figure it out,” he says. The Parks and Rec actor also says fans definitely don’t want to miss the final scene of Thursday’s episode. “There’s a really sweet cliffhanger in the finale. I can’t reveal it now, but believe me, Jerry would be officially retired if I revealed it.” I can second that! Don’t miss it!
5. Hannibal: Don’t Eat My Girl!
Things for Will Graham and the FBI team on NBC's new series Hannibal are about to be ripped to shreds. Literally. Guest stars Eddie Izzard, Anna Chlumsky, and Raul Esparza join in on the horror show on Thursday night's episode (dubbed "Entreé" Oh la la!) and this brand new hour may just open up a bit more into the psyche of our main characters.
Agent Jack Crawford has always pushed Will Graham hard when it comes to finding serial killers — nearly to the break of Graham's own mental well-being. It's a slippery slope, but after watching the episode, it’s safe to say that Graham and Dr. Hannibal Lecter aren't the only ones bringing their own baggage into this series.
Izzard shines in his creepy best as a suspect in the Chesapeake Ripper murders, and fans of the Thomas Harris series of novels will be happy to meet Dr. Frederick Chilton. Esparza's Chilton seems to crave recognition and accolades for his work — whether he deserves them or not — and has taken a special interest in one of our main characters as a potential case study. Only time will tell if Dr. Chilton ends up getting the attention he seems hell-bent on receiving, but his introduction is an eye-opening one.
My Girl’s Chlumsky joins the team as Miriam Lass, a young FBI trainee under the tutelage of Jack Crawford — and let's just say fresh meat is the perfect way to describe this character. If you thought watching Thomas J. getting attacked by bees was traumatizing, you might want to watch the second half of Thursday night’s episode from the cracks between your fingers. Oh, and you’ll also feel a little bit nostalgic for the days when you’d rather die than let go of your Blackberry. #TeamiPhone.
Are you excited to see the new season of Arrested Development? How do you think Jerry will stay close to the Parks and Rec team? Eager to see Anna Chlumsky’s tasty appearance on Hannibal? Tell me everything in the comments below!
—Additional Reporting by Jean Bentley, Alicia Lutes and Kelsea Stahler.
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Played dual role of twin brothers, George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on the FOX sitcom, "Arrested Development"; received Best Supporting Actor Emmy (2004, 2005) nominations

Appeared several times on ABC's "Three's Company"

Summary

Often seen onscreen playing officious and obsequious types in a variety of film and television roles, actor Jeffrey Tambor first made himself known as the narcissistic sidekick Hank Kingsley on the acclaimed cable sitcom "The Larry Sanders" (HBO, 1992-98). Prior to his Emmy-nominated success on that show, Tambor went back and forth between comedy and drama, playing the recurring role of a judge on "Hill Street Blues" (NBC, 1981-87) while turning in comic performances in "Mr. Mom" (1983) and "City Slickers" (1991). Once he landed the role of Hank, Tambor quickly emerged as a fan favorite, thanks to his many sparring matches with the fictional late night talk show host (Garry Shandling) and the show's producer (Rip Torn). After the program left the air in 1998, Tambor moved on to supporting roles in major films like "There's Something About Mary" (1998), "Girl Interrupted" (1999) and "Pollock" (2000), before returning to the small screen as the incarcerated George Bluth, Sr. on the hilarious and short-lived critical darling, "Arrested Development" (Fox, 2003-06). Tambor also played George's stoner twin brother, Oscar, to hilarious perfection. Meanwhile, he kept busy working in features like "The Hangover" (2009), while also providing his distinctive baritone voice to a variety of animated works, proving that Tambor remained one of the most highly-sought after character performers in the business.

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Wayne State University

San Francisco State University

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"He's just brilliantly funny," Shandling recalls. "I would sit in editing and watch him and laugh out loud, and always know that Jeffrey could do anything in any story and have enough weight to actually make the show work. He could hold up the show. He had that part from the second he walked in to audition. He was Hank, just like that. It's really weird." - from Premiere Magazine, May 2004